Bob and Eileen Albert own the Court
Tavern on Church Street in New Brunswick. If your lookng for
a sympathetic bartender to listen to your problems and pat you
on the back, maybe this isn't the place for you. On the
other hand, if you can handle some abuse from some bartenders
who understand your demons because they have more than a few
of their own, I'm sure you'd be welcome. Their motto is Cruel
but Fair.

The democratic machine that is running
New Brunswick seems to think the entire town would be better
if it was one huge parking deck surounding J and J's Corporate
Headquarters, Rutgers University and Robert Wood Johnson Hospital.
Various factions have been trying to buy Bobby's bar for several
years now, but he wouldn't sell. So they decided to build around
him.

I am taking a picture from three
angles and posting them at this site. I probably won't make
it every day, but I'm going to try to update it at least three
times a week with some comments.

04/08/04 Construction begins at the
lot next to, and behind my local bar the Court Tavern. 04/08/04 I'm taking the first two pictures from parking space 81,
five feet back from the wall, two feet from the left yellow line in the parking
deck across from the Court. The third picture is taken across the street behind
the Court.

The bartender says that a couple of construction
guys stopped in for lunch today. They're planning on taking 50 to 100 trucks of
debris out a day.

The projected effect on business: They may get
some of the constuction guys in for lunch and a couple of guys after work for a
couple of beers, but parking is going to be hell with the two lots being torn
up and the spaces on the side of the Court boarded off. This may affect their
weekend business where the Alberts make most of their money by hosting live
bands.

04/09/04

04-12-04

04-14-04

04-15-04

04-16-04 I moved up one level in the
parking deck for the second picture for a better view. I'll
be taking this shot from the 3'rd floor of the parking deck
from here on in.

4-19-04 The tree in front of the Court
is starting to bloom

4-22-04 They've painted the barrier
blue.

04-23-04 IV

4-27-04 Everybody wave hi to Eileen
Albert

05-01-04 I have moved my location for
the second picture again. I think there is a much better view
of the site from the other end of the parking deck, and the
tree was blooming into the camera view.

05-03-04 They have removed my favorite
construction machine, the red one with the drill on the
end of it.

05-05-05 Cinco De Mayo.

05-08-04

05-11-04

05-13-04 They're starting to
pour some concrete

5-17-04

5-20-04 They've added a office trailer

5-25-04

5-28-04 They dug up the sidewalk in
front today, without giving Bobby any notice. They seem to have
done a good temporary job ob replacing it. They said they'd
be back with a proper sidewalk tommorrow. I don't think they'll
have it in for two years when the project is approaching completion.

06-04-04 There hasn't been too much
change in the construciton so I won't be updating as often until
I see some action. I was wrong about the sidewalk. It's been
replaced just a few days after being uprooted.

06-15-04 Not much change yet. You can
see some in the Additional Photos section.

06-22--04

06-24-04 I'm going to change the third
view some time this week. Got to do a little research to find
a better area because it looks the same every day from this
view, and the job site is
starting to look different below the street level.

06-30-04 Changed the 3'rd view to the
Feren Deck Parking lot on Church Street. You can see the job
site better. Once the job gets above street level I may change
back.